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On both sides of the Atlantic, commentators and activists have reacted with growing fury to the French government’s expulsion of hundreds of Roma, or Gypsies, to Bulgaria and Romania. Many critics liken these expulsions — as well as the threat to strip lawbreakers of their French citizenship — to the deportations of Jews organised by France’s Vichy regime during the second world war. It’s hard to know what is more outrageous: the policies practiced by President Sarkozy or the analogies proffered (...)